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Doris was holding her doll (pictured) when the Nazis entered her family's apartment flat during Kristallnacht. One Nazi swung an axe at Doris, but the doll head received the brunt of the impact, shattering it. Gertrude replaced the doll's head in…

Doris with her parents, Gertrude and Julius, in 1938, shortly before fleeing to England.
Doris with her mother in Austria circa 1936.

For Christmas in 1943, Dr. Sturges gifted an early edition of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886), which he inscribed to Doris.

The Drancy camp was a multistory complex that imprisoned and deported a majority of Jews from France. The U-shaped building was initially built in the 1930s as a housing project. Approximately 70,000 prisoners passed through Drancy between August…

Pictured are Edith Shapiro, born in 1935, and Selma Rossen, born in 1936, in Zloczów, Poland. The sisters were hidden children during the duration of the war. With their parents, they immigrated to the United States in 1946.

Edith stands outside the first home a Christian family hid her and Selma. When hidden for a second time, the Christian family only took Edith because she could "pass as Aryan." The Gentile family left Edith alone in their home the next morning. Out…

Entrance and sculpture of the Children in the Holocaust exhibit at Temple Sinai in Summit, NJ.

Monique (front and center in a black blazer) with her family, where she was honored at West Point for her volunteer efforts in the Israeli Independence War.